Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 41

If you know of nothing better, we will give the commission to the white gnats; they fly about in rain and sunshine; they know the burdock wood from one end to the other."

Who acts: you, we, snails · What happens: know, give, fly · To what, where: commission, white gnats, rain, burdock wood, one end

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, snails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 give	advcl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 know	obl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 commission	det
12	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 gnats	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gnats	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gnats	amod
16	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fly	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fly	nsubj
19	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 give	parataxis
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 fly	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 rain	case
22	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fly	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sunshine	cc
24	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rain	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fly	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wood	det
29	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wood	compound
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 end	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 end	nummod
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 end	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	present	you					of nothing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nothing=Stimulus
2	give	future	we	the commission	the white gnats				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent commission=Theme to gnat=Recipient
3	fly	present	snails = snail			rain and sunshine		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location
4	know	present	snails = snail	the burdock wood			from one end to the other		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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